Turo Car Rent Puts Cars to Use While You’re Away
Turo, formerly known as RelayRides, lets travelers rent out their car while away, and rent someone else’s in their destination.
Alternative Travel
What is alternative travel, anyway? To us, it means zigging instead of zagging, traveling to the less visited, less known about, less familiar. GoNOMAD explores the places that are forgotten, and not as on the radar. Here is where some of the best stories happen. Enjoy reading about working abroad, living abroad as an expat, teaching, and volunteering. All alternatives to the typical trip, and all richly rewarding.
Down on the Farm: Farm Stays Around the World
A guide to the many farms that allow guests to come and stay with them and enjoy learning about life on a farm, farm stays around the world.
All Fish Faces: Volunteering in the World’s Oceans
A new children’s book, All Fish Faces,” shows what many different ocean fish look like and how they live, and a blogger traveled the world volunteering.
Kangaroo Cuddles in Kununurra, Western Australia
In Kununurra, Western Australia, there is a place you can go if you love baby Kangaroos, at the Kangaroo Haven Rescue, baby joeys are bottle fed and raised.
Traveling for Free: Seven Tips
From Couchsurfing to riding bicycles and walking, there are a lot of ways to travel the world for free. Teaching English and working abroad too.
Haiti: Volunteering with YourStory Int’l
Olivia Gilmore, a college student from Mass, joined YourStory International on a trip to Haiti where she assisted local and other doctors to treat patients.
The Eden Project: Cornwall, England
The Eden Project is a collection of artificial biomes created in rural Cornwall, England to recreate the Earth’s natural places, it’s popular with visitors.
Experiencing DPRK: Secret Compass New Expedition
Secret Compass, an extreme travel company, is offering a new expedition to DPRK to experience unseen landscape and rich culture firsthand.
Togo: Visiting Fetish Healers at the Market in Lome
My Dance Macabre Among the Fetish Healers of Togo By Edward Placidi It was a ghoulish and gruesome scene in the doctor’s office. I was visiting the Fetish healers there. Hundreds of carcasses splayed on the ground. Row after row of heads and other body parts arranged on tables. Spines, legs, arms and other skeletal […]
Georgia: A Rustic Retreat to Truly Get Away from it All
The Hostel in the Forest is a rustic retreat in rural Brunswick, Georgia, where you can swim in a pond, enjoy walks in the woods and eat vegetarian food.
Adventure Heals in Montana
In Kalispel, Montana, Brad Ludden of First Descents offers cancer patients and their caregivers a chance to enjoy whitewater rafting on big rivers, the ultimate way to heal.
Book Authentic Travel Experiences with Visit.org
Book Authentic Travel Experience With Do-Good Organizations By Anna Levine Looking to engage in society and travel at the same time? Visit.org aims ‘to enhance the mission of great social organizations by facilitating mutually beneficial virtual and in-person interactions between people and communities around the world.’ Funded in part by Columbia University in New […]